Name Kaskelot Owner Sportcel Type Tall ship Construction started 1948 Length 47 m Beam 8.5 m | Namesake Cachalot Identification IMO number 5183120 Tonnage 226 GRT Launched 1948 Draft 3.7 m Builders Svendborg, Denmark | |
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Kaskelot is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission. The Kaskelot was built in 1948 by J. Ring-Andersen for the Royal Greenland Trading Company, to carry supplies to remote coastal settlements in East Greenland. During the 1960s, Kaskelot worked as a support vessel for Danish fisheries in the Faroe Islands.
In 2007, for the bi-centennial celebration of Great Britain's ending the African slave trade, the ship was sailed up the Thames River to Tower Bridge in London to represent the Zong. This slave ship, its crew and cargo of slaves figured in court proceedings in 1783 and became a symbol for the nation's anti-slavery movement because of the murder of 132 slaves during the voyage.
The current owners purchased the ship in 2013, and undertook an extensive refit at T. Nielsen in Gloucester. The ship is used for charter and commercial work around the UK.
Film credits
Kaskelot has appeared in the following film and television productions:
